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Consultation on a proposal to extend mandatory daytime protection rules to allow programmes which can currently only be shown after the 9pm watershed to be broadcast earlier, but only if mandatory daytime protection is in place.

Consultation on proposals for regulation of the wholesale market – the Wholesale Local Access market – for services that use this fixed connection between the local telephony exchange to a home or business premises to deliver broadband or landlines.

Decision on reforming the process for switching mobile provider, removing requirements on consumers to pay for their old service during a notice period once they have switched provider, and ensuring consumers are better informed about switching.

In this statement, we set out our conclusion that there is a need for an automatic compensation scheme to protect residential consumers who suffer from certain service quality failures with their landline and/or broadband services.

Ofcom exists to make communications markets work for everyone. To achieve this, we are proposing three main goals: to promote competition and ensure that markets work effectively for consumers; to secure standards and improve quality; and to protect consumers from harm.

This document discusses two licence variation requests from EE Limited, which would enable the use of 4G technology and support the provision of enhanced mobile communications for the emergency services.

We publish a 'general policy' on how we are likely to use our persistent misuse powers and to consider this when exercising them. We have reviewed the current policy and are now consulting on proposals to change it.

Ofcom's proposed next steps on consumer switching. This builds on the work already under way to help consumers change landline and broadband providers with greater ease and convenience. To progress this next phase of work, Ofcom is seeking input from stakeholders to better understand the current processes used to switch providers of bundled landline, broadband and pay TV services, and mobile voice and data services. In particular, Ofcom wants to gather information on how current processes affect the consumer switching experience and competition in the market.

Ofcom has today proposed to change the way people dial local telephone numbers in some parts of the country, in order to free up new numbers where supplies are running low. The change would require people in five areas of the UK to include the area code when dialling a local number from a landline.